Summary
In order to isolate a DNA fragment able to complement a sporulation-deficient mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a simple screening procedure was devised which was based on the difference in osmotic sensitivity between protoplasts and spores. A plasmid (pHT7) containing a 13 kb DNA insert that complemented the spoT7 mutation was isolated from a yeast genomic library prepared in the vector YEp13. Gene spoT7 was linked to rna1 at 1.2 cM and to mak27 at 7.2 cM on the right arm of chromosome XIII. Mapping of the cloned gene following integration into the chromosome showed that the cloned gene was allelic to spoT7 and that a part of the RNA1 gene was also cloned into the same fragment. Gene spoT7 was localized on a 5 kb DNA fragment by further subcloning.
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Abbreviations
- kb:
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kilobase pairs
- cM:
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centiMorgans
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Tanaka, H., Tsuboi, M. Cloning and mapping of the sporulation gene, spoT7, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Molec Gen Genet 199, 21–25 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327504
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